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Oracle Redwood is redefining how businesses interact with their ERP systems, blending sleek design with enhanced functionality. Migrating to Oracle Redwood isn’t just about adopting a new interface—it’s about transforming business processes to align with modern, intuitive workflows.
But here’s the reality: Oracle Redwood migration comes with significant challenges—from ensuring compatibility for customizations to keeping up with Oracle’s quarterly updates. This blog will explore what Oracle Redwood is, the migration process, its challenges, and, most importantly, how Opkey’s no-code test automation platform can make Redwood migrations seamless, efficient, and stress-free.
What is Oracle Redwood?
Oracle Redwood is a state-of-the-art design framework shaping the future of Oracle Cloud applications. It blends intuitive navigation, responsiveness, and sleek aesthetics to create a consumer-grade experience in enterprise software. Redwood aims to make daily tasks effortless while reducing training time, user errors, and operational friction.
Key features of Oracle Redwood include:
- Unified Experience across Platforms: All Oracle applications adopt the same cohesive design framework, simplifying user onboarding.
- Personalization & Automation: Tailor interfaces to user roles and automate repetitive tasks for higher efficiency.
- Enhanced Data Visualization: Gain actionable insights through clear, responsive visualizations.
- Optimized Mobile Experience: A design-first approach ensures Redwood applications perform seamlessly on desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
How Oracle Redwood Can Streamline Business Operations
The adoption of Oracle Redwood provides businesses with a myriad of benefits that go beyond its modern design.
- Enhanced User Productivity: With a more intuitive navigation system, employees can access information faster, reducing time spent on routine tasks.
- Tailored User Experience: Redwood’s personalization capabilities customize interfaces to meet individual roles and preferences, driving better user adoption.
- Automation as a Default: Redwood incorporates automation features, decreasing the reliance on manual processes, and minimizing inconsistencies.
- Improved Collaboration: Unified workflows and seamless integration with other Oracle Cloud applications foster better collaboration across teams.
How Oracle Will Roll Out Redwood
Oracle is rolling out the Redwood interface through its quarterly updates for incremental delivery. Oracle’s quarterly updates (Release 25A, 25B, etc.) are the primary mechanism for delivering new features and UI enhancements, including the Redwood interface.
Learn more: Opkey's Oracle 24D Advisory explains Oracle's rollout of Redwood through Quarterly Updates and how Opkey supports them.
Oracle Redwood is following an ongoing release schedule for specific applications and modules (e.g., Financials, Procurement) and will expand to others in subsequent updates.
New Redwood UI components in future releases might first be available as optional features, allowing customers to test and adopt them at their own pace.
Since Oracle's Redwood offers a modern, consistent, and intuitive user experience across Oracle applications, it will bring significant UI changes and functional updates, which can disrupt critical business processes if not adequately tested.
This is where Opkey’s test automation platform comes in.
Opkey ensures comprehensive coverage of your critical business processes, minimizing the risk of disruptions during the rollout of Oracle Redwood through quarterly updates.
Before updates are applied to customers’ environments, Opkey runs a comprehensive series of automated tests to validate the features being released against your environment.
These tests validate:
- The health of the builds in a simulated existing customer environment.
- Successful execution of tests in a simulated new customer environment.
- End-to-end business process flows.
- Primary use-case scenarios.
- Alternate use-case scenarios.
- Oracle Cloud’s security tests.
- Reports and integration tests.
- Additional scenarios derived from design specifications.
Learn more: Navigating the Shift to Oracle Redwood with Test Automation
Challenges in Oracle Fusion Redwood Migration
Migrating to Oracle Redwood isn’t just about a new look—it requires businesses to reevaluate workflows, test compatibility, and ensure their new systems live up to performance expectations. Here are the main challenges you may encounter during the migration process:
Keeping Pace with Oracle’s Quarterly Updates
The Redwood interface is being introduced through Oracle’s quarterly updates, making it essential for organizations to carefully manage and test these updates to avoid potential disruptions to workflows. Each update can bring changes that impact critical business processes, so rigorous testing is crucial to ensure compatibility and a seamless rollout.
However, relying on manual testing for Oracle update testing can be challenging — it's not only time-consuming but also increases the risk due to inadequate coverage. Implementing a robust test automation strategy is key to maintaining operational stability.
Learn more: Oracle Cloud Redwood 24C Release: What’s New?
What (and How) to Test
Testing every component during migration can be overwhelming, not to mention resource-draining. Selecting regression suites based on human judgement alone can be very risky as they can lead to inadequate coverage.
To ensure adequate coverage and that business continuity remains intact, you need a smarter method to prioritize testing high-risk areas without wasting resources on less critical components.
Learn more: How to Improve Test Coverage of Your Testing Program
Customizations and Integrations
Migration to the Redwood interface requires careful attention to existing customizations and integrations to ensure there shouldn't be any process deviations. This involves thorough testing to identify any compatibility issues. For instance, some APIs linked to UI components might need updates or even replacements to align with the new interface.
Additionally, custom workflows and extensions should be validated to confirm they integrate seamlessly with Redwood. It's equally important to ensure that connections with third-party tools and legacy systems remain intact, as disruptions here can affect business operations.
Learn more: Oracle Redwood Migration Timeline and Testing Guide
Cross-Browser and Device Compatibility
Redwood’s responsive design requires successful performance across a multitude of devices and browsers to deliver consistent user experiences. Testing for compatibility across countless devices manually is both tedious and error prone.
Clearly, testing is the bottleneck. But with the right test automation solution, these challenges are much more manageable.
How Opkey Simplifies Oracle Redwood Migration
Opkey is an AI-powered, no-code test automation platform purpose-built to address the challenges of complex ERP migrations, including Oracle Redwood.
Here’s how Opkey solves key testing bottlenecks during Oracle Redwood Migration:
No-Code Automation for Business Users
Opkey enables non-technical users, like HR and finance teams, to create and execute test scripts. Opkey’s no-code platform ensures that everyone—not just IT departments—plays an active role in user acceptance testing.
Problem Solved: Business users can contribute meaningfully to testing processes without needing specialized coding knowledge, reducing bottlenecks in user acceptance testing (UAT).
AI-Enabled Impact Analysis
Opkey’s AI-powered Impact Analysis identifies which modules or features are most affected by updates, prioritizing testing where it’s needed most. Opkey compares your current ERP software with proposed quarterly ERP updates to expose risks across critical business processes caused by changes to the ERP landscape. With Opkey’s detailed reports, you can see changes across the releases that affect your ERP application.
Problem Solved: Instead of running exhaustive tests every time or involving guesswork in selecting regression suites— QA teams can only focus on high-risk areas, optimizing resources while decreasing production defects.
End-to-End Coverage
Opkey supports integrations across 12+ ERPs and 150+ applications, ensuring that all workflows—both native and third-party—function as expected.
Problem Solved: Cross-application testing is seamless, ensuring both on-prem and cloud-based systems remain operational post-migration.
Multi-Device, Multi-Browser Testing
Opkey automates testing across millions of device and browser configurations in the cloud, ensuring Redwood performs consistently on any platform.
Problem Solved: Eliminates the inefficiencies of manual compatibility testing, enhancing user experience across all platforms.
Self-Healing Test Scripts
When Oracle updates alter the UI, traditional test scripts often break. Opkey’s AI repairs broken scripts automatically, ensuring uninterrupted testing workflows.
Problem Solved: Reduces the downtime associated with re-writing scripts after UI changes.
Learn more: A Guide to Test Maintenance: How to Maintain Your Testing Program with Test Automation
Results Delivered with Opkey
Opkey is recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC for its robust capabilities and trusted worldwide for mission-critical testing. Organizations that have adopted Opkey for Oracle Redwood migrations have reported significant benefits, including:
- Accelerated Deployments: Faster release cycles with minimal post-deployment issues.
- Improved Testing Efficiency: Reduced manual effort allows teams to focus on innovation rather than repetitive tasks.
- Higher System Reliability: Comprehensive coverage ensures all business-critical functions work seamlessly post-migration.
- Faster Time-to-Value: Seamless testing during migration accelerates ROI realization for Redwood projects.
Elevate Your Oracle Redwood Migration
Oracle Redwood holds the potential to revolutionize your organization’s workflows with its superior design language and modern features. However, migration success heavily depends on robust, efficient testing processes that can keep up with updates and customizations.
Leverage Opkey’s industry-leading no-code automation capabilities to ensure a seamless transition to Oracle Redwood, saving time, eliminating risks, and empowering your teams to unlock Oracle Fusion’s full potential.
Don’t wait until Redwood releases start impacting your workflows—schedule a free demo with Opkey today and see how effortless your Oracle Redwood migration can be.
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